Workers on strike

stenpett

Apparently, I've been working my builders too hard lately, because on one of my sandbox games, they all decided to go on strike at the same time, despite available blueprints, clear paths, and resources aplenty. I tried moving them, and then reassigning them to the task at hand, but to no avail. Even when I put all 21 of my workers on the task, they still refused to work. All other tasks were fine, but not building...

Shatojon

Hey Stenpett,

Sorry about that. Could you load that game, then get us the logs?

stenpett

I reloaded that game, and that seemed to fix the issue. The error hasn't popped up again so far. I'll see if I can find the logs for you, once I get to the compute.

Xikini

It may not relate directly to the issue that stenpett had, however if a single block in a lower layer becomes unreachable, the workers will stop moving while trying to find a way to that specific block, even if there is other blocks available to place or remove.
This is easily reproducible if you use the landscaping tool on a block with an overhang. (building upwards)

In the picture, you have 2 doors that are placed, but no way to reach the other side, unless they walk on the doors.

My theory is that the workers wanted to place those blocks, and all got stuck trying to reach it.
The workers tend to all want to go for the same block if it's on a lower level, which in this picture, those blocks are the lowest blocks placeable by the workers. (north-west building)

Just a theory. I have never tried getting a bricktron to walk across the top of a door before.
However upon reload, the workers would have all re-thought their decisions again, and one of the workers must've found the block above the door, and placed it, therefore allowing access to the other side.

I don't know if I'm right, but it sounds right to me.

Cheers,

Xikini

stenpett

I can't find any logs associated with this savegame (only two from unrelated crashes), so here's my savegame folder in its entirety.